How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life by Len FisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson, £12.99, ISBN 0-297-60756-1
You have to be very dedicated to...
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software
by Steven Johnson
Allen Lane, £14.99, ISBN 0713994002
What exactly have ants got in common with cities,...
Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience
by Martin Gardner
Norton, $14.95, ISBN 0393322386
Did HG Wells predict the Internet? Does reflexology have a foot to...
Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
by James Houran and Rense Lange (Editors)
McFarland & Company, £76.50, ISBN 0786409843
This is an excellent book for anyone with a...
Netherworld: Discovering the Oracle of the Dead and Other Ancient Methods of Divination
by Robert Temple
Century, £17.99, ISBN 0712684042
A frustrating book on an interesting subject....
The Book of Nothing
by John D Barrow
Vintage, £8.99, ISBN 0099288451
Barrow is a professor of mathematical sciences, and author of “Theories of Everything” and “Impossibility”.
This...
An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment
by Patricia Fara
Icon Books, £9.99, ISBN 1840463481
“Electricity has one considerable advantage over most other branches of science,...